3(CR)  MWF 2:30-3:20  BH011

This course for majors in Classical Civilization, Latin, or Greek
attempts to introduce the participants to the large range of
literature from the two Classical civilizations that takes love as its
starting point or focus.  On the Greek side, the  course will consider
such topics as romance, marriage, celibacy, chastity, homosexuality,
eunuchs, birth control, rape, and priapism.  The texts covered will
range from the lyric through the dramatic to the rhetorical,
novelistic and philosophical.  On the Roman side, the class will
consider the notion of "the slavery of love" in the Roman elegists and
the notion of masculinity.   Ovid will be the principal but not the
only author considered.  Ample time shall be devoted also to the
portrayal of love in the plastic arts, whether on Attic red-figure
vases or Italian Arretine pottery or erotic Pompeian figurines.

There will be three papers, two short (five pages) and one long
(twelve to twenty pages).  Bibliography on specific topics will be
provided in order to assist the students in their research and
writing.